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...Hernández has always been impressed by “the exceptional level of doing in the United States”, a trait she attributes to the fact that everyone is a transplant in one way or another....
...I also love a leisurely dinner at nearby Arethusa al Tavolo, if I can get a table....
...Leading the way is Bonanza, an “unnecessarily good” roastery sourcing beans from small farms across Africa, Indonesia and Latin America....
...He gets a bit of money from the state thanks to his disability cheque, but it’s not enough to live on anywhere else....
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...safety she cherishes in Celebration, whose logo is of a girl cycling under an oak tree....
...black farm workers....
...Ruscha and his wife Danna now live in Coldwater Canyon, an affluent enclave to the north of Beverly Hills, where, he says, there is no natural landscape to speak of....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...“There is a straightforwardness to America, everything is very clearly black or white,” he says. “I actually like shades of grey – it’s a space for dreaming and for possibility....
...Gideon Rachman ——————————————- HISTORY Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, Oxford University Press, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when...
...a V sign to a country he had come to hate and was fleeing to more hospitable America....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...and seasonal ingredients from a network of local farms....
...“The tree that bends [in the wind] stands up.” He sits on a short sofa underneath a black-and-white photograph of a man with a long white beard tending to farm animals....
...Selections by Andrew Clark … POP Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital, by Lloyd Bradley, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£12.99 Bradley’s richly detailed account of black culture in London...
...Among the least seen I would list Neil Kenlock, a British Black Panther who became a civil rights photographer in the 1970s, and Al Vandenberg, who worked as a commercial art director as well as a photographer...
...On the other days we walk up in the high hills of the Lozère, among the gorse and heather, heading for our favourite picnic spots....
...As I strolled the somewhat scruffy garden of the Al Ghaftain guest house at Qitbit, on the fringes of the Rub’ al Khali or “empty quarter” (the desert that dominates Oman’s interior), I remembered the cynics...
...I buy a bunch of widow iris from Cornwall, a small black-tongued flower that smells like perfume on skin. Just in case, I steal a fistful of the last winter roses....
...He is a vegan and refused to do business with turkey farm king Bernard Matthews who, he says, “wanted wind farms to power his turkey concentration camps”....
...Then I go to my farm in America to chill out and go back to my roots. I also spend some time in 40C heat in my castle in Trujillo in Spain. What do you do when you arrive? Go for a long walk....
...My favourite place was the Gazar Gah, a gorgeous Sufi shrine on the edge of the hills that surround the city....
...The Afrofuturism of Sun Ra, Hendrix et al was a response to black America’s dismal history of slavery and segregation. Being enslaved was imagined as a form of alien abduction....
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